Roman Catholic Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla

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Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis
Reggio Emilia Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Modena-Nonantola
Statistics
Area	2,394 km2 (924 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 569,853 504,133 (88.5%)
Parishes	318
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1st Century
Cathedral	Cattedrale di Beata Vergine Assunta (Reggio Emilia)
Co-cathedral	Concattedrale di Ss. Pietro e Paolo (Guastalla)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Massimo Camisasca, F.S.C.B.
Emeritus Bishops	Adriano Caprioli Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B.
Website
reggioemilia.chiesacattolica.it

Co-cathedral in Guastalla

The Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It has existed in its current form since 1986. In that year the historical Diocese of Reggio Emilia was united with the Diocese of Guastalla. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola.^[1][2]

History

In the Capitulary of Quierzy, Reggio was included among the towns which Pepin had in mind for the Donation of Pepin, but it came into possession of the Papal States only later, and for a short time. After the death of Countess Matilda (1165) the popes claimed the town as a part of her inheritance, while the emperors claimed the same as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire.

Reggio accepted the vicars of Emperor Henry VII and Louis the Bavarian, and was subject to the pope under Cardinal Bertrand du Poyet (1322). Later (1331), John of Bohemia, who recognized the suzerainty of the pope over Reggio as well as over Parma and Modena, was made lord of the city, but sold it to the Fogliani, from whom it passed to the Gonzaga of Mantua (1335), who sold it to Galeazzo II Visconti of Milan. In 1409 it returned again to the House of Este of the line of Modena, until 1859. The popes, however, always claimed to be its suzerains. After the Ferrara War, Reggio spontaneously submitted to Pope Julius II (1512–15). By the Peace of Barcelona (1529), Emperor Charles V bound himself to give back Reggio to the popes, but he did not do so.

A local legend makes the first bishop of Reggio Saint Protasius, a disciple of Saint Apollinaris. Admitting his existence, also five or six historical bishops, predecessors of Faventius in 451, it would seem that the episcopal see dates from the first half of the 4th century. Saint Prosper was the successor of Faventius; he died between 461 and 467.

Famous bishops

• Thomas (c. 701)
• Nodoberto, ambassador of Louis the Pious at Constantinople (817);
• Azzo II, murdered during the Hungarian invasion in 900;
• Thenzo (978), who rebuilt the Basilica of St. Prosper and other churches;
• Nicolò Maltraversi (1211), much praised by the chronicler Salimbene de Adam and often ambassador to Emperor Frederick II;
• Enrico de Casalocci (1302);
• Battista Pallavicini (1445), the poet;
• Marcello Cervini (1540), later Pope Marcellus II;
• Cardinal Alessandro d'Este (1621);
• Angelo M. Ficarelli (1821).^[3]

Bishops of Reggio Emilia

to 600

• Protasio ? † (328 ?)
• Cromazio ? † 345 ?)
• Antonino ? † (362 ?)
• Elia ? † (379 ?)
• Santino ? † (396 ?)
• Carosio ? † (413 ?)
• Favenzio † (451)
• Elpidio † (V secolo)
• Prospero † (? - 25 June 466 ?)
• Tommaso † (483)
• Stefano † (511 ?)
• Diodato o Deusdedit † (488 o 533 ?)
• Lorenzo † (500 ?)
• Teodosio o Teodoro † (554 o 555 ?)
• Donodidio † (577 ?)
• Adriano † (599 ?)

600 to 1000

1000 to 1400

1400 to 1600

1600 to 1900

since 1900

• Arturo Marchi † (16 December 1901 - 29 April 1910 named archbishop of Lucca)
• Eduardo Brettoni † (12 October 1910 - 13 November 1945)
• Beniamino Socche † (13 February 1946 - 16 January 1965)
• Gilberto Baroni † (27 March 1965 - 30 September 1986 named Bishop of Reggio Emilie-Guastalla)

References

Acknowledgment

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Reggio dell' Emilia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

Coordinates: 44°42′00″N 10°38′00″E / 44.7000°N 10.6333°E / 44.7000; 10.6333